Halyna Petrosanyak

[1] She graduated in German and Russian studies from Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.

[1][3] Petrosanyak is also the laureate of Hubert-Burda-Preis für junge Lyrik (2007) and the Ivan Franko Prize (2010).

[2] Her works have appeared in various literary magazines and almanacs[1] and have been translated into several languages, including English, German, Polish, Russian, Czech and Italian.

[7][8] Furthermore, the Ukrainian translation of the Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke was published in the same year.

[11][12] In the same year, the author attained membership in the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts[13] and was awarded the Literature Prize of the Kunststiftung NRW-Straelen.